Tag: socbiz

You may think it’s obvious that football is a naturally social business, but just how seriously are the clubs taking things? Let’s take a look at Manchester City which is leading the way in the Premier League with the announcement that it is rolling out full-stadium High-Density WiFi at the Etihad. However, this move comes […]

The journey to becoming a social business can be a lengthy one. In fact, it’s likely to be a journey that never ends. As the tools, techniques, channels, platforms and devices continue to shift, multiply and morph, businesses will always be chasing their customers, their staff and their suppliers in the race for relevance. In […]

People have been talking about building ‘Social Businesses’ for quite a while now. That’s all well and good, but what exactly does it mean? You may have seen one or two models trying pull together the basic themes, but here’s a different take on things from Richard Potter and I, both at Steria and both of whom […]

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about Chris Brogan‘s take on enriching relationships through the various strata of social media and musing on how his model applies within the enterprise. First though, a quick refresh on Chris’s take on things: Outposts Chris talks about engaging with people (think about customers, partners, etc) at what he […]

Building social businesses and helping others to do the same is grounded in the power of sharing. People willingly share their knowledge, their insights, their experience and their time to allow others to learn and grow. It’s a reciprocal arrangement too, so just like any productive social interaction, everyone benefits. That’s good, right? Of course […]

A current area of focus for The Work Foundation is how the UK develops a strategy for open innovation. They are building a new employer-led research programme to examine the effectiveness of innovation ecosystems within organisations. One key question which forms the basis of this new research is what strategies organisations need to adopt to […]

This is again one of those blog posts done for personal reasons, to collect my thoughts and to reaffirm my inspiration but hopefully it resonates with readers. This post has been rumbling around in my head for some time but I was prompted to finally get it out there by a similar post from Susan […]

I recently ran into a slew of articles and Tweets touching on this topic. Yet despite all the talk and the fact many organisations understand that the locked down intranet (1.0) of old wont do, I thought there is still much debate about what its new iteration (the social intranet) is and why it is […]

This post is inspired by an excellent post with a very similar title and purpose but different angle. Jay Baer just a few days ago looked at a Comparison of 100 Top Companies on Social Business and Corporate Culture. He took data from Dachis’ Social Business Index for the most social businesses and correlated it […]

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I’m often faced with confusion by customers that ask me questions around engagement or get things a little mixed up so I wrote this so I could point them in the right direction :) Engagement of employees at work probably has it’s roots way back but has only achieved real prominence in the last decade […]

You may think it’s obvious that football is a naturally social business, but just how seriously are the clubs taking things? Let’s take a look at Manchester City which is leading the way in the Premier League with the announcement that it is rolling out full-stadium High-Density WiFi at the Etihad. However, this move comes […]

Our tech startup, Pinipa, is all about empowering people and gathering a community, to help drive change in an organisation. Social, with purpose. The ideas themselves are not particularly new, but how the ideas are applied is challenging long held beliefs on ‘best practice’. The pace of market-driven change, and the need for organisations to keep […]

I clearly remember one of the best pieces of advice I have ever received. I was newly pregnant and worried about the impact it would have on my career. A Partner from my firm was honest enough to say ‘You are in danger of hitting a glass ceiling. Not because you’re not capable enough, but […]

Once upon a time, in a decade far far away, systems of engagement were born and enterprise social was conceived. We branched off from systems of record and the promise was that these new systems of engagement would grow to forever nurture simple engagement, collaboration and interaction. What was the premise? Systems of record are […]

The title of this post is prompted by one of my first posts from the Day One app – more background on that below. I was looking for a simple writing tool and found it in this iPad app which also has a counterpart for the iPhone and Mac. I found and indeed already have […]

Our tech startup, Pinipa, is all about empowering people and gathering a community, to help drive change in an organisation. Social, with purpose. The ideas themselves are not particularly new, but how the ideas are applied is challenging long held beliefs on ‘best practice’. The pace of market-driven change, and the need for organisations to keep […]

Once upon a time, in a decade far far away, systems of engagement were born and enterprise social was conceived. We branched off from systems of record and the promise was that these new systems of engagement would grow to forever nurture simple engagement, collaboration and interaction. What was the premise? Systems of record are […]